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Entrepreneur who was the first major African-American fashion model. Born on March 30, 1948, in Oxford, Mississippi; graduated from Westinghouse High School in Pittsburgh; studied briefly at New York's Fashion Institute of Technology; married Michael Findlay (an art dealer); children: John Phillip.

Was the first African-American woman featured on the covers of major fashion magazines (late 1960s); founded the Naomi Sims Collection (1973); founded Naomi Sims Beauty Products (1985).

Naomi Sims was born on March 30, 1949, in Oxford, Mississippi. Her early childhood was marked by chaos and abandonment, as her father left the family when she was an infant, her mother suffered a nervous breakdown, and Sims and her sisters were separated after being sent to live with various relatives. Sims was raised by loving foster parents, but continued to battle the usual adolescent insecurities, which were magnified by a height (5'10" by the time she was 13) that would o